OECD Reviews of Health Systems Primary Health Care in Brazil

OECD Reviews of Health Systems Primary Health Care in Brazil

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9264507752

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Primary health care in Brazil is well-organised, the result of sustained commitment to providing high quality primary health care for the whole population. Brazil has implemented a set of reforms over the past decades to improve the distribution of doctors, develop new forms of service organisation, introduce new financing models, and implement a range of quality improvement initiatives.


OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Kazakhstan 2018

OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Kazakhstan 2018

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9264289062

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Kazakhstan has made significant economic progress over recent decades. Health has risen on the policy agenda with a number of sector reforms introduced. This review uses globally recognised frameworks and indicators to evaluate Kazakhstan’s overall health system.


OECD Reviews of Public Health: Latvia A Healthier Tomorrow

OECD Reviews of Public Health: Latvia A Healthier Tomorrow

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 926461964X

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Latvia sees high rates of obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption. In turn, this results in a high incidence of preventable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and many cancers. This puts a burden on a health system which is already operating on a very tight budget as compared to other OECD countries.


Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9264805907

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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.


OECD Rural Studies Delivering Quality Education and Health Care to All Preparing Regions for Demographic Change

OECD Rural Studies Delivering Quality Education and Health Care to All Preparing Regions for Demographic Change

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9264446540

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COVID-19 has put renewed focus on the importance of addressing longstanding challenges that OECD governments face in delivering public services, especially in regions with people spread over a wider area where economies of scale are more difficult to achieve. The physical infrastructure needed to provide good quality education and health services can be more complex and expensive in rural and remote regions that also struggle to attract and retain education and health care professionals.


OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Peru 2017

OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Peru 2017

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9264282734

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This is the OECD’s first Health System Review of Peru. It seeks to support Peru’s policy goal to attain universal health coverage by 2021, and build a high-performing health system with continuously improving accessibility, quality, efficiency and sustainability.


OECD Economic Surveys: Korea 2022

OECD Economic Surveys: Korea 2022

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-09-19

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9264980059

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Sound health management and supportive policies helped Korea emerge swiftly from the pandemic. The recovery is set to continue as pandemic-era restrictions on contact-intensive services are shelved, despite the Russia-Ukraine war raising inflation and highlighting the need to increase supply chain resilience.


Health at a Glance 2021 OECD Indicators

Health at a Glance 2021 OECD Indicators

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9264480919

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Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition has a special focus on the health impact of COVID-19 in OECD countries, including deaths and illness caused by the virus, adverse effects on access and quality of care, and the growing burden of mental ill-health.


OECD Economic Surveys: Slovak Republic 2022

OECD Economic Surveys: Slovak Republic 2022

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9264745165

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After a deep recession in 2020, economic activity has rebounded. However, supply disruptions and a low vaccination rate are making the future pace of the recovery more uncertain.